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Sexy, strong and stylish from Bette Davis, to Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford to Judy Garland, Rosalind Russell to Barbara Stanwyck, each have left their indelible mark in film history and our hearts, having defined roles for women both on and off the screen. Join the Hollywood Fight Club Theatre as they celebrate the charismatic, enduring and elegant actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age and experience what made these women legendary. Learn more...

Seven suspects, six weapons, five bodies and three possible endings! Based on the board game and the murderously funny cult film, Clue follows six guests who are invited to a strange house for dinner... and blackmail. The audience chooses the murderer, so every performance is different! Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men. Innocent until proven guilty is a cornerstone of our judicial system. But what if your own prejudices influence your decision? Can a boy from the wrong side of the tracks get a fair trial when judged by a jury of 12 men? Watch what happens as each man comes face to face with himself as he makes his decision. Learn more...

This funny play takes a journey through the convoluted mind of Walter McCormick, a disgruntled playwright who searches his past for inspiration to write a new play. As Walter relives his crazy experiences with family, in school, and with girlfriends, he has moments of hilarity, pain, and self-discovery, all while questioning what is "truly inspired." Learn more...

Marriage promises friendship, love, partnership--but what about passion? In Federico Garcia Lorca's romantic tragedy Blood Wedding, love is the antagonist and everyone is subject to the havoc and destruction it reaps in its wake. As a couple's wedding approaches, the bride's former lover comes to visit--and suddenly everything changes. Learn more...

No one is immune to love--or to a great love story. In Hello and Goodbye, My Darling, actors bring to life on stage some of the most famous beginnings and endings of love affairs in modern-day cinema in scenes from "When Harry Met Sally," "Chasing Amy," "Swingers," "Closer" and "Annie Hall." Stand-up comics also offer commentary on the art of relationships. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents two of Edward Allan Baker's powerful plays: North of Providence, the story of a painful domestic crisis between a brother and sister on the last day of their father's life, and Dolores, the tale of two sisters drawn together because of domestic violence, which influences them more than they've ever admitted. Learn more...

The Boys Next Door is a thoughtful, humorous, and perhaps surprising story of four mentally and emotionally challenged men and their social worker as they explore their hopes, problems and frustrations. Learn more...

This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play shows human beings confronting the ultimate human challenge--dying--and learning the value of life, laughter and courage. Faced with terminal illness, three patients struggle with their mortality and its effect on their loved ones. The Shadow Box implores us to live our lives to the fullest with courage and passion. Learn more...

Love, betrayal, and desire fill Chekhov's timeless classic about a family searching for meaning and purpose in their privileged but provincial life. The Three Sisters fill their lives with distractions, suitors and lovers, all while waiting for the chance to re-make their lives in a more hopeful way...somewhere new. Learn more...

Quentin Tarantino has written several masterpieces. They are all uniquely made-up of interesting characters and outrageous storylines. But the one thing all of his works have in common is great dialogue. This play combines some of the most memorable dialogue from Tarantino's movies into one continuous original story. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater brings the best and most hilarious skits from the storied history of "Saturday Night Live" to LA live and in person, utilizing a stellar cast of local talent in a tribute to the best late night show in New York! Ackroyd, Belushi, Martin--the best comedic minds created these skits, and now they can be seen all over again--live! Learn more...

Love scenes from Hollywood and Broadway collide in Hollywood Fight Club's Whole Lotta Love. Scenes from such films as Rocky, When Harry Met Sally and Good Will Hunting will share the stage with excerpts from theatrical works including Mensch Meier and Dust. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents David Mamet's challenging, acclaimed play Oleanna. A seething investigation of "political correctness" in a time when the nation's morality has been tested by increased incidents of sexual harassment, this was one of the most talked-about plays of 1992 and it maintains its relevance and power today. Learn more...

An emotional roller-coaster--moving seamlessly from hilariously funny to deeply moving, three sisters return home during a snowstorm for the funeral of Vi, their recently deceased mother. The sisters agree on almost nothing--including what it was like growing up together. Learn more...

This piece combines two of Moliere's greatest adventures (The Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Flying Doctor), featuring Sgnarelle, a happily drunk peasant who keeps finding himself caught up in the troubles of the nobility. Mistaking him for a doctor, arrogant and thick aristocrats demand Sgnarelle to perform medical miracles or die. It's a riotous night of classical farce. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents a series of short plays that answer some age-old Hollywood questions: What happens to the guy who gets his car stolen by James Bond? Where do Ocean's 11 find their non-essential team members? Can money really turn brother against brother? And how did Bill Pullman feel at the end of Sleepless in Seattle? Learn more...

Tom Stoppard, the writer of Shakespeare in Love, delivers another ingenious comic retelling of a Shakespeare classic. This time he gives us the world's most famous play, Hamlet, told from the point of view of two bumbling support players. The entire world is a stage and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play their part, finding themselves unwitting pawns in history's greatest tragedy. Learn more...

Even if you've never read the play, you've heard of Hamlet. Here's your chance to see it performed live on stage, in its classic form. Suspecting that his father, the late King of Denmark, has been murdered by his uncle, a troubled prince sets out the expose the truth. Shakespeare's tale of murder, madness, revenge, redemption and tragedy is arguably his finest and best-loved masterpiece. Learn more...

Audiences will have the chance to see some of the best comedy skits from Saturday Night Live performed onstage in a tribute to the show held at the Hollywood Fight Club Theater. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater introduces Continuing Education, three original short plays by Kevin Rush in which a veteran teacher shares his insights of the over-educated in a know-nothing culture. Learn more...

A fantastic and funny journey, this collection of one-act plays tell stories of a woman who falls for a bee, a bee who falls for a man; a sea monster in a hospital room; a bitter sweet memory on a beach; two theatre-loving cockroaches at the end of the world; and a young woman missing something essential--who finds a way to solve her problem. Learn more...

Quentin Tarantino has written several masterpieces. They are all uniquely made-up of interesting characters and outrageous storylines. But the one thing all of his works have in common is great dialogue. This play combines some of the most memorable dialogue from Tarantino's movies into one continuous original story. Learn more...

In this critically acclaimed play young Heidi Holland tried to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. She searches through relationships, feminism, anti-feminism, friendships and more, but comes to find the answers are only within herself. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents Waiting For Love, 13 Stories acted by 10 women about finding or dealing or dancing with love. Waiting For Love takes you on a roller coaster ride of the heart. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club presents True Genius, story of a boy genius named Scooter who also happens to be a pathological liar. As Scooter falls in love with another pathological liar named Lila, and an eccentric psychologist pries at his past, Scooter's bizarre family history begins to unravel and he comes to question everything his mother has led him to believe is real. Learn more...

As the First World War rages throughout Europe and mighty armies decide the fate of the world, five women struggle to do what they can in the flickering gaslight of a tiny nurse's station somewhere in wartime London. Together they face the very personal triumphs and tragedies that war brings to those who must stay behind...to the sisters, wives and mothers who can only watch and worry from behind the lines. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club presents Patrick Hamilton's play Rope, the original source for Hitchcock's thriller film of the same name. To overcome boredom Brandon and his friend Granillo have thrown a party with a special twist. The trunk in the center of the room contains the body of the classmate they had just murdered. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club presents two plays by Christopher Durang: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare. In the first, Sister Mary Ignatius explains her unusual and stringent take on the Catholic views of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Heaven... maybe. In the second, George finds himself smack in the middle of every actor's worst nightmare, only to find out it's even worse than he thought. Learn more...

After realizing how boring and meaningless his life is, Edmond leaves it all behind to embark on a quest for truth and fulfillment. Set over the course of one long night, businessman Edmond Burke journeys through a series of back-alley peep-shows and "leisure clubs," in order to destroy the boring and "comfortable" man he once was. Learn more...

Quick jabbing dialogue, characters with less-than-fancy footwork, knock-down circumstances and stories that will bring everybody into the ring. Comedic Sluggers hits not only your funny bone but counter-punches to the emotional body as well pulling you out of the seats and on your feet from the first swing to the final bell. Learn more...

Life, death, the universe, the existence of God and all that jazz. No mere mortal ponders, pontificates or fixates on these ideas more deeply, passionately, or irreverently than Woody Allen in his three plays: God, Death Knocks and Mr. Big. Please note that, although Woody Allen wrote the works, he will not be performing them. Learn more...

Marriage, career and diaphragms are all up for debate in Wendy Wasserstein's play Uncommon Women and Others. No topic is taboo for Wasserstein to examine in this incisive and humorous celebration of women's evolving roles. Learn more...

An alcoholic, a street corner philosopher, a clown, an artist, a rock star and a nurse stuck on a corner in the twenty-something wasteland, between school and real life. On a regular night that ends up changing everything, who will grab the chance to live and who will end up dying stuck in Suburbia? Learn more...

A playwright, a lover, a woman in drag, a mother...what did these characters have in common? As we live our lives, love - or lack thereof - is often the central theme. It drives us to act. And who best to explain action and love than Shakespeare himself, as he explores his own work in our modern times. Learn more...

Teen angst, hairspray, rebellion, boozing, boom boxes, pink on pink on pink - that's right, it's the 80's! The Brat Pack is back for a romping live performance of all the favorites. Join the Hollywood Fight Club for detention and rebellion. Flirtation and annihilation. Indulge in the nostalgia, the rolled jeans, and everything 80's in-between. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club presents Neil Simon's comedy classic with a twist. One play, two versions, two casts, under one roof - Oscar and Felix versus Olive and Florence. Uptight Unger and messy Madison have been thrown together in an apartment, and the patterns of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear. Male and female versions are performed different nights. Come see each version and choose your favorite. Learn more...

Cheaters Anonymous recreates the feel of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, with performers sharing their stories. From sinful adulterers to vengeful spouses and lovers, it's a night of comedy at its best as couples battle their tortured, tangled hearts in scenes from Cheaters, California Suite, Lunch Hour, Divorce Me Darling, and more. Learn more...

This very "Yiddishkeit" black comedy deals with the challenges facing young Jewish women today in dealing with commitment, parenthood, religion and family. In this world-premier play, three former "Kleinman" sisters and their husbands/lovers meet at the Shiva of their mother, Myra Kleinman, a bitter woman, who has died as she lived, unloving and unloved. Learn more...

After The Fall, legendary playwright Arthur Miller's most mature work, is a pain-wracked drama about a man's riveting struggle to make peace with history - his own and the world's - in order to go forward with his life. Learn more...

Restaurant Revelations brings together a series of favorite, recognizable characters to perform overheard Hollywood conversations, some funny, some heartbreaking, all revelatory. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club launches their second season with Hellcab, a seventy-minute collection of scenes from a day in the life of a Chicago cabbie. "Hellcab [is] a real joy ride." --Chicago Tribune. Learn more...

Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband's sweater drawer. It is so shocking that the heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club Theater presents The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery. Every drama group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society is no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that can happen does. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club lifts the curtain on farce with What the Butler Saw, the dashingly funny Joe Orton comedy about a psychiatrist's seduction gone wrong. The confusion grows when the clothes come off--so hop on over to HFC and peek through the keyhole so you too will know What the Butler Saw Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club presents Boy's Life by Howard Korder. Told in a series of fast-paced, sharply etched scenes, the play traces the misadventures of three former college friends now seeking to make their way in the big city - and with various women of their acquaintance. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club presents two innovative and energetic new productions: A Shot in the Dark and A Night of Romantic Comedy. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club heats up November with A Night of Drama. Two completely different casts perform work from eight contemporary classics of the stage and scene. Learn more...